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noun (used with a singular verb)
1.
the science or study of speech sounds and their production, transmission, and reception, and their analysis, classification, and transcription. Compare acoustic phonetics, articulatory phonetics, auditory phonetics, physiological phonetics.
3.
the symbols used to represent the speech sounds of a language.
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adjective
1.
Also, pho·net·i·cal. of or pertaining to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
2.
corresponding to pronunciation: phonetic transcription.
3.
agreeing with pronunciation: phonetic spelling.
4.
concerning or involving the discrimination of nondistinctive elements of a language. In English, certain phonological features, as length and aspiration, are phonetic but not phonemic.
noun
5.
(in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character.
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| phonetics (fəˈnɛtɪks) | |
| —n | |
| (functioning as singular) Compare phonology the science concerned with the study of speech processes, including the production, perception, and analysis of speech sounds from both an acoustic and a physiological point of view. This science, though capable of being applied to language studies, technically excludes linguistic considerations | |
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Word Origin & History
phonetic
"representing vocal sounds," 1826, from Mod.L. phoneticus (1797), from Gk. phonetikos "vocal," from phonetos "to be spoken, utterable," verbal adj. of phonein "to speak clearly, utter," from phone "sound, voice" (see fame). Phonetics "scientific study of speech" formed in Eng. 1841.
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phonetic pho·net·ic (fə-nět'ĭk)
adj.
Of or relating to phonetics.
Representing the sounds of speech with a set of distinct symbols, each designating a single sound.
phonetics pho·net·ics (fə-nět'ĭks)
n.
The branch of linguistics that deals with the sounds of speech and their production, combination, description, and representation by written symbols.
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